SPCA removes 74 animals from Town of Wallkill home

Tuesday

Jul 2, 2013 at 2:00 AM

TOWN OF WALLKILL — The Hudson Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals removed 67 birds, three goats and four dogs from a Stony Ford Road property, saying the owners could no longer take care of them.

Nathan Brown

TOWN OF WALLKILL — The Hudson Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals removed 67 birds, three goats and four dogs from a Stony Ford Road property, saying the owners could no longer take care of them.

The birds — 46 pygmy chickens, 10 guinea hens, seven ducks, two pheasants and two turkeys — and the goats will have a new home at Windwood Farm in Clintondale.

The dogs — a mother and three of her young, all female white German shepherd-white wolf mixes — will go to the SPCA.

Officials said an older couple lived in the home. The wife took care of most of the animals, but she is now in a nursing home; the water source to the property also stopped working recently.

Her husband, unable to care for the animals, contacted the SPCA, said Eugene Hecht, chief of the Hudson Valley SPCA's Law Enforcement Division.